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Mar 14
VIDEO THREAD: Armed gun owners in Virginia showed up outside the State Capitol in Richmond this afternoon to rally against new gun control measures awaiting signature from Governor Spanberger such as bans on the sale of "assault weapons" and large capacity magazines in the state.
2) Under the anticipated Virginia law, sale of 30-round magazines would be illegal beginning this summer.

Magpul donated boxes of 30-round AR-15 magazines which were distributed to the crowd for free, whose possession would theoretically be grandfathered in.
3) Police confronted a man over having a suppressor on his rifle, which they apparently isn't allowed per a new ordinance in Richmonf.

"F***ing a**holes. F*** them. Tyrants," he explained, without complying. "They can go f*** themselves. This is my American right right here."
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Mar 14
@Hellen__TK @blueberriesGG PART 1: I totally agree with you. But I need to mention something I've already explained (in the tweet below) to people who haven't played D1: D2, with all its problems, is much more complete and very well-executed. I'll comment on that in the next tweet.
@Hellen__TK @blueberriesGG PART 2:
Destiny 1 only had 4 Raids, 3 of which already exist in D2.
But it had a great number of Strikes, of which only Fallen S.A.B.E.R., The Devils' Lair, The Disgraced  (The Will of Crota remastered) and The Sunless Cell returned.
WE NEED MORE STRIKES!!
@Hellen__TK @blueberriesGG @threadreaderapp @UnrollHelper
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Mar 14
🧵 The Genetic Legacy of I46564 : A Mediterranean Connection
1/9 🧬 Let’s explore the genetic journey of sample I46564 , an individual whose DNA provides a remarkable window into the complex population history of the Mediterranean basin, from the Bronze Age to the modern era. Image
2/9 🗡️ At the center of this story is the paternal lineage: Y-DNA Haplogroup E-FTE54508. This genetic signature marks a specific branch of the human family tree that has navigated the Mediterranean's shifting cultural landscapes for millennia
3/9 🤝 A key highlight of this lineage is its deep historical connection to other ancient remains. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that shares a common ancestor with the Birgi 24554 remains, linking these two individuals through a shared paternal root. I46564.TWImage
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Mar 14
What have we seen so far in the war between #Israel and #the_US against #Iran? 🧵
1/14
Overall, after half a month of war, there is no clear winner. The U.S. and Israel maintain the operational initiative on the battlefield, while Iran continues to impose costs by closing the Strait of Hormuz. 2/14
The situation on the front lines: The U.S. and Israel are maintaining the pace of strikes against Iran and have expanded their operations from the initial phases to deeper and more complex strikes. 3/14
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Mar 14
🚨NEED TO BE VIGILANT

More Islamist attacks may be coming, warns Muslim reformer @DrZuhdiJasser. He predicts that radical Islamist terror will likely wane if the Iranian people throw off the IRGC, but that gives militants a closing window...

🧵1/9

dailysignal.com/2026/03/13/nee…
Jasser's warning comes after 4 attacks in the 2 weeks since the operation began.

1⃣Ndiaga Diagne killed 2 and wounded 14 at an Austin bar about 24 hours after Trump's announcement.

He wore an Iran shirt and a "Property of Allah" hoodie. FBI is investigating as terrorism

🧵2/9 Image
2⃣B*mbs at Protesters

Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, attempted to detonate two improvised explosive devices, targeting protesters outside Gracie Mansion. According to the Justice Department, both men expressed their support for the Islamic State, or ISIS.

🧵3/9 Image
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Mar 14
THREAD. I have to say that I am very disappointed with John Oliver. I finally watched his segment on police body cameras, and it was abysmal. Missed the whole point, and in the process bought into some of the worst copaganda about them.
The show correctly (but not strongly enough) points out that police body cameras don't "work"--meaning they are a total failure if one assumes their goal is to make police less violent and more accountable. They do not do that. They do not do the thing most liberals have been told is their purpose. The research is overwhelming on this point. The mainstream news has numerous articles on the evidence. Oliver reports this with some decent jokes, but he largely makes the cardinal error that I identified in my study of a decade of body camera propaganda: **Oliver assumes that the marketing of body cameras to well-meaning liberals accurately reflects their true purposes and functions.** As a result, he follows a long ling of liberal propaganda in obscuring the reasons that police, the surveillance industry, prosecutors, and politicians keep pushing them. Isn't he the slightest bit curious why both Hakeem Jeffries, every prosecutor in the U.S., and Kristi Noem/Tom Homan are celebrating them?
Incredibly, Oliver misses almost all the key parts of the story: 1) The original plan of the tech industry and cops to market them as good for cops/surveillance; 2) They had no success with this and had to rely on private donations for body cameras from people like Steven Spielberg! 3) So, after Ferguson, they pivoted to pitching them to liberals as "accountability and transparency." 4) This is worth literally tens of billions of dollars, and it's inextricably linked to the surveillance industry, AI, facial recognition, voice recognition, cloud computing contracts, policing of protests, databases on activists and poor people and immigrants, and protecting cops from liabilityl etc. 5) The enormous pressure from prosecutors and cops to get liberals to fork over the billions of dollars necessary to give every cop a body camera so they can use it overwhelmingly in low-level cases to coerce guilty pleas from poor people because the entire system is crushed if people exercise their right to trial; 6) The cops love them because they control the footage and can hide bad stuff, make stuff they like go viral, and control public narrative; 7) They play an extremely important propaganda function as we see after police killings and after recent ICE killings of focusing conversations on individual incidents and bad actors to get people to stop asking much deeper questions about why we have these forces and why they are in the neighborhoods they are in and what they are doing.
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Mar 14
1/ Hey @uwukko @inputnet — I'm a paying Helium supporter at $50/month because I believe in what you're building. Privacy-focused browsing matters to me.
So imagine my surprise when I submit a PR that fixes a real bug and you label it "AI SLOP SPAM" and lock it.
2/ Here's what happened: passkeys from iCloud Keychain / Apple Passwords weren't working in Helium. Not QR-based, not security keys — the ones stored in
the Secure Enclave via macOS. I've been fighting this for days.

3/ I used AI to help me diagnose the issue. The fix?

tccutil reset WebBrowserPublicKeyCredential net.imput.helium

That's it. Passkeys work again. Real fix. Real problem. Verified on my machine.

4/ I submitted PR #185 with this fix. I'll be the first to admit — the AI went overboard and generated a bunch of README documentation and passkey guides
I didn't ask for and didn't want. That's on me for not reviewing the full diff before submitting. Fair.
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Mar 14
Oh how they’re prepping for the fake invasion and rapture. Remember…you’ve been warned exactly how it will go. Keep your mind with Christ.
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Mar 14
The headlines are relentless.
AI seems posed to outthink many of us.
So what do humans do?

Twenty years after writing A WHOLE NEW MIND about the rise of right-brainers, here’s my initial answer:

Double down on six human skills. 🧵👇
1. Questioning

We used to have search engines.

Now we have answer engines.

When answers get cheap,
questions become priceless.

Great thinkers don’t deliver answers.
They generate better questions.
2. Taste

AI generates endless drafts.

Scripts. Images. Ideas. Subject lines.

Most are mediocre.

The future belongs to people
who can say:

“That one.”

Taste filters signal from noise.
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Mar 14
🧵 Naval escorts through the Strait of Hormuz are often discussed as a solution to tanker attacks — but in practice they are difficult to execute at scale. A short thread 1/ Image
🧵The last large-scale tanker escort campaign in the Gulf was Operation Earnest Will (1987–88), when the US reflagged and escorted Kuwaiti tankers during the Tanker War. Even then, escorts were selective and resource-intensive. 2/ Image
🧵If a coalition is stood up today, it may look more like the International Maritime Security Construct under the first Trump administration — where I served as N5 Plans. That mission focused largely on building confidence for commercial shipping. Routine escorts were actually rare due to limited naval ships. 3/Image
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Mar 14
🚨🇮🇱BREAKING:

Shoshana Strock, daughter of Minister Orit Strock, has committed suicide.

She has made countless videos of stating how she was abused and exploited by her parents. Image
Source: Image
The Israeli journalist avoided naming her but that’s her, she is recognizable from the initial image I posted. Image
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Mar 14
Iran killed a French soldier with a Shahed drone.

Zelenskyy: The US and Gulf states asked Ukraine for anti-drone systems. We remember how long we waited for help in the first days of the war. Now we help those who helped us first.

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Zelenskyy: Sanctions on Russia must remain. If you lift sanctions control, Putin earns money.

He puts this money into Shahed drones and sends them to Iran, and the Iranian regime uses them to strike American bases or airports.

2/
Zelenskyy: Criticism exists, and the fact that you know about it shows democracy is alive in Ukraine

In Russia there is no criticism. One person decides everything and everyone else obeys

3X
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